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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: wzambon 🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: Pam Bondi: Extortionist
Date: 01/25/26 11:53 AM
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After the killings of Renee Good (whose autopsy shows she was killed by the third shot when the ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path) and Pretti, the Trump regime tried to exclude state investigators and predetermine the details and outcome before any factual inquiry. That has led to a slew of resignations, the latest of which was reported Friday, by the New York Times: “[FBI] agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the FBI’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross.” In the case of Pretti, state and local officials held their ground and vowed to investigate and hold the killer(s) responsible.

Even more outrageous, late Saturday Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, telling him ICE would pull out if he met a list of unrelated demands, including the release of voting files. Any shred of doubt that this had nothing to do with immigration or safety vanished in this shameful act of what amounts to extortion.


This was never about immigration. It was, and remains, about intimidation, whipping up MAGA by giving them blood, and nailing down the 2026 mid-term election steal.

It’s not working with the majority of Americans
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